List of Famous people born in Pays de la Loire, France
Yves Robert
Yves Robert was a French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.
Sandrine Josso
Sandrine Josso is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the department of Loire-Atlantique.
Leslie
Leslie Bourgouin, better known by her mononym Leslie, is a French pop-R&B singer born on 4 February 1985 in Le Mans, France. Her father is Vietnamese and Polynesian while her mother is French. She is married to French music producer Djamel Ferazi known as Kore, with whom she has a son.
Adlène Guedioura
Adlène Guedioura is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Qatari club Al-Gharafa and the Algeria national team.
Guy Laporte
Guy Laporte was a French actor.
Claude Sérillon
Claude Sérillon, is a French journalist and TV presenter.
Henri Rousseau
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier, a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time.
Constantin-François Chassebœuf
Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney was a French philosopher, abolitionist, writer, orientalist, and politician. He was at first surnamed Boisgirais after his father's estate, but afterwards assumed the name of Volney.
Jacques Loussier
Jacques Loussier was a French pianist and composer. He arranged jazz interpretations of many of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, such as the Goldberg Variations. The Jacques Loussier Trio, founded in 1959, played more than 3,000 concerts and sold more than 7 million recordings—mostly in the Bach series. Loussier composed film scores and a number of classical pieces, including a Mass, a ballet, and violin concertos. Loussier's style is described as third stream, a synthesis of jazz and classical music, with an emphasis on improvisation.
Sébastien Bourdais
Sébastien Olivier Bourdais is a French professional racing driver, who resides in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is one of the most successful drivers in the history of American Championship car racing, having won 37 races. He won four successive championships under Champ Car World Series sanction from 2004 to 2007.